Y'all don't just do everything out of your Downloads folder?
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2026
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~ is kinda hard to reach. I just put everything in root so I just have to type / once to find everything.
/s
Oh cool I'll also start using "/s" folder
Everything is just in /. I patched directory support out of ext4.
Documents for me, but yeah
Living dangerously in agile times. I do it in /tmp and I set auto clean for every reboot.
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I like this idea. I've been doing pretty much the same thing for a while now, though it's been a subdirectory of Documents.
I made SO MANY directories under home that could have just been ~/Projects that I'm annoyed with myself for not doing something so simple.
.... I'll be using the projects directory heavily going forward
As someone who has used ~/Projects for years and has syncing and other setup around it I am (very slightly) terrified this change could somehow fuck with me.
Please let this just be a mkdir call that will fail.
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I’ve always had a projects folder, so this works for me I guess.
Same, I picked it up from some random user I was watching.
It may as well be called 'git folder' because it's almost exclusively used to clone 'hmm, neat' github repos and for my various 'to do' projects where I've gotten as far as running git init.
I have two folders for git though, my projects, and other people's packages and such
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Everyone complaining, and here I am not having noticed the change because I've created that directory for myself years ago :-P
Personally its for organisation
I do the same, source code lives in it.
What do you put in it? For me the logical place for that would be ~/Documents/projects
All my projects, which to be fair are mostly programming.
~/Documents/Projects doesn't make sense to me because theyre not strictly documents. In documents i have - well, documents like bill receipts, forms ive filled in, etc...
My projects are a first-order thing for me if that makes sense, so it makes sense to have them in the top-level of my home.
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But why are the names ~~camel~~ Pascal cased? It's a little bit more annoying to type.
Seconded, I hate that every file is all lowercase but my home directory if filled with Downloads, Videos, Documents, etc...
You can customize the names with a ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. That will work on XDG-compliant programs. instructions
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Because any normal person would want it upper cased. Most people never type these folder names.
Yes, Linux should appeal to the masses, otherwise we will never get rid of Windows. No, this doesn't apply to anyone on Lemmy cause nobody on Lemmy right now truly qualify as "normal person", statistically speaking.
Windows user appeal?
Appeals to Java programmers too.
So does self-flagellation, but we don't provide default whips in the Kernel.
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Ahh, I was wondering why there's a Projects next to my projects, I thought I just made a typo at some point
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Honestly I say just let the user decide what goes in their home directory. I always get annoyed at all the random garbage in there. There should be a specific place that is user owned that isn't filled with cruft and configuration files
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Now make all of default XDG directories lowercase. Nothing else is capitalized in the file system - why do these directories get an exception?
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Hah, thats funny, I... literally have a 'Projects' folder, though I'm running Bazzite.
hoists suspenders
Yep, made that folder on my own, gets the job done, mhrm.
... lol
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Honestly I don't mind this at all.
When I start a Godot projects, putting the project into Documents makes very little sense to me.
Okay so next up is the Porn folder, right?!
That one was proposed but people were not able to agree on the name. Homework was the leading candidate when i last checked.
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Those files all go in documents. Jesus, why are we doing it this way?
No documents are for documents.
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how about first getting programs to put dotfiles into the .config folder (opposed to .programname) instead of adding more folders that are inconsistent over distros for multiple years before the point of a default for IDEs and CAD programs can even be meaningfully made?
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I never even thought to check. Was Games not a default folder?
It's pretty much the first folder I add on a fresh install, gotta keep that shit contained
And that's where it should stop.
shouldn't have even started imo. it's hard for me to believe creating a projects folder is done often enough that people can't just continue to make their own
The article should also mention the new XDG variable itself, please.
And also, the XDG people should've thought of a more flexible way, that allows unlimited custom icon-directory associations. Now, we have some file managers, that do it their own way, most don't allow custom directory icons.
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